These porcelain lamps by Chilean studio Great Things to People (GT2P) are turned on and off by stroking blobs of lava in their centres. More about Lumps of lava act as built-in dimmer switches for porcelain lamps by GT2P
LEDs are the light of the future now that the technology is finally advanced enough for it to be interesting to designers, according to industrial designer Arik Levy (+ slideshow). More about LEDs finally able to create light of the quality designers expect says Arik Levy
British designer Samuel Wilkinson has launched a LED light for Swedish brand Zero that can be rotated at an angle to the ceiling or wall (+ slideshow). More about Samuel Wilkinson's Thirty lamp rotates at a constant angle
Designer Dean Skira has turned eight cranes at one of the world's oldest working shipyards into a giant light show, creating a new tourist attraction in Pula, Croatia (+ slideshow). More about Croatian designer creates giant light show by illuminating shipyard cranes
Paris designer Jean-Sébastien Lagrange has collaborated with bookbinder Anne-Lise Courchay to create a lamp rolled from a single sheet of a folded parchment. More about Jean-Sébastien Lagrange rolls parchment into a lampshade
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: British design brand Another Country has collaborated with New York studio Workstead to produce a lighting collection formed from reconfigurable metal rods. More about Workstead bolts together metal rods to form lighting for Another Country
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: Stockholm architect and designer Hanieh Heidarabadi has created a brass pendant lamp with the intention that people will 3D-print their own shades. More about Shades for Make Lamp by Hanieh Heidarabadi can be custom 3D-printed
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: British fashion designer Paul Smith has put his stamp on the Anglepoise Type75 desk lamp, adding colours to the iconic aluminium design. More about Paul Smith tints Anglepoise desk lamp with clashing colours
News: design trade show Tent London has launched an online shop dedicated to products created by current and previous exhibitors, which it claims is the first of its kind. More about Tent London trade show launches Shop Tent ecommerce platform for exhibitors' work
Spain and Switzerland-based studio Kawamura Ganjavian launched a Kickstarter campaign this week to fund a flexible glowing lamp (+ slideshow). More about Kawamura Ganjavian designs Kangaroo Light for the bottom of your bag
American lighting brand Roll & Hill will showcase brass lights that imitate the shapes of unfurling plants and musical instruments at an exhibition in New York that opens later this week. More about Roll & Hill to exhibit brass lighting at New York design week
Red, blue and green lights moving across a faceted triangular structure created multicoloured shadows in this installation by Australian lighting specialist Flynn Talbot (+ movie). More about RGB lighting installation by Flynn Talbot casts multicoloured shadows
French designer Tim Defleur has created a table lamp from a single sheet of folded steel that forms the base and shade. More about Tim Defleur folds a single steel sheet to form PLI & CO lamp
Maison&Objet 2014: this simple lamp by design studio Something for French brand Ligne Roset has a bell-shaped shade similar to a wild flower (+ slideshow). More about Something designs lamp for Ligne Roset to look like a bellflower
Movie: chief design officer for Philips Lighting Rogier van der Heide explains how advances in LED technology are enabling lighting to be integrated into the surfaces of building materials and fabrics. More about Luminous ceilings and carpets will become commonplace, says lead designer at Philips
Milan 2014: these LED lamps by German graduate designer Theo Möller blow up like balloons to create inflatable lighting. More about Blow lamps by Theo Möller inflate like balloons
Padded panels based on tulip petals form a shade for this lamp created by Italian designer Mario Alessiani for furniture brand Formabilio. More about Overlapping "petals" surround Mario Alessiani's Bloemi lamp
Competition: Dezeen has teamed up with publishers Bloomsbury to give readers a chance to win a guide to 21st century lighting design by Dezeen contributor Alyn Griffiths. More about Competition: five 21st Century Lighting Design books to be won
Milan 2014: lamps by Nao Tamura that look like fishing floats are shown alongside lighting by Zaha Hadid and John Pawson in this movie, filmed for British company Wonderglass in Milan earlier this month (+ movie). More about Lamps by Nao Tamura, Zaha Hadid and John Pawson feature in Wonderglass movie
For this year's Coachella festival, American artist Phillip K Smith III created an installation of shiny cuboids that by day provided a series of mirrors, but by night were transformed into neon towers of light (+ slideshow). More about Neon mirrors by Phillip K Smith III created glowing beacons at Coachella